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ROTARY CHICKEN BARBECUE AND FALL FESTIVAL 2012
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Investment advice?
Chicken Barbeque Chairman finds great reward in job
After 30 years as a stockbroker and
financial consultant, Scott Wirgau is a
manwho knows a good investment.
He's says he's found one of the best
with the Plymouth Noon Rotary Club
where he is the official Chicken
Barbeque Chairman this year. Wirgau
and his team of six committee mem-
bers, along with Kay Linville, the
chairman from last year, are responsi-
ble for the preparation, packaging
and delivery of 11,000 chicken din-
ners on “ChickenSunday.”
“It's hard to change 57 years of tra-
dition, and it would be foolish of any-
body to try,” Wirgau said of the event
which includes 700 student volun-
teers to help with the massive opera-
tion.
“My goal is to try and make it a lit-
tlemore fun and let people knowhow
appreciative we are of their help.
This isn't an easy job and these peo-
ple work harder than anyone knows
to pull this off,”Wirgau said.
Wirgau's rise to the rank of chair-
man began about eight years ago
when he offered to help a friend at
the event. The next thing he knew, he
had joined the club and was on the
barbeque committee.
“Everybody starts at the bottom the
first year. That year, the job is to do
whatever any of the other committee
members need done. You dowhat you
are told. You don't really have a
defined role,” he said. The members
then advance each year to specific
tasks until they reach the seventh
year which makes them the “head
cluck.”Wirgau said.
“By that time, the chairmen have
done it all, supplies, manpower, grill,
pits, everything.”
The eighth year they become the
senior advisor and offer whatever
advice, counsel help and problem
solving they can.
The Chicken Barbeque is the
biggest effort of the club each year
and the dinners, priced at $10 or $12
usually result in about $30,000 for the
club. That money goes directly into
Rotary programs which include local
and international efforts.
“People see this effort and they
stand back in awe,” Wirgau said. “It
truly is an amazing feat, watching
these volunteers build those pits and
prepare the chicken.”
Wirgau said one of his top goals
was to inspire people to get involved
in the Rotary Club and be part of the
effort in all the projects.
“We are, as a club, so busy getting
the job done, we do a terrible job of
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Scott Wirgau